I suppose that philanthropy funds mainly driven by public relations and their managers are looking for projects that would look good on their portfolio. Your idea may buy your way to the attention of the said managers, but they will decide based on comparison with similar projects that got maybe more viral and may seem more public-appealing.
If your project is simple enough for a non-specialist to evaluate its worthyness in 30 minutes, than perhaps the best course of action is to seek for more appealing presentations of your ideas that would catch the attention and make it viral. Then it will work for fund managers as well.
Not really, apart from the absense of feedback on my proposal.
I think it is a universal thing. Imagine the works of such a fund and you are a manager peeking proposals from a big flow. Even if you personally feel that some proposal is cool, but it doesn’t have public support and you feel that others won’t support it. Will you be heavily pushing it forward when you have to review dozens of other proposals? If you do, won’t it look like you are somehow affiliated with the project?
So, you either look for private money, or seek public support, I see no other way.
I suppose that philanthropy funds mainly driven by public relations and their managers are looking for projects that would look good on their portfolio. Your idea may buy your way to the attention of the said managers, but they will decide based on comparison with similar projects that got maybe more viral and may seem more public-appealing.
If your project is simple enough for a non-specialist to evaluate its worthyness in 30 minutes, than perhaps the best course of action is to seek for more appealing presentations of your ideas that would catch the attention and make it viral. Then it will work for fund managers as well.
I don’t think this is a good description of how big EA funders operate? This might be true for other orgs. Do you have any data to back this up?
Not really, apart from the absense of feedback on my proposal.
I think it is a universal thing. Imagine the works of such a fund and you are a manager peeking proposals from a big flow. Even if you personally feel that some proposal is cool, but it doesn’t have public support and you feel that others won’t support it. Will you be heavily pushing it forward when you have to review dozens of other proposals? If you do, won’t it look like you are somehow affiliated with the project?
So, you either look for private money, or seek public support, I see no other way.
I think EA funders are more willing than many other non-profit funders to be the first person to fund your org, without anyone else supporting.
P.S. I didn’t downvote your comments.
That’s just me trying to analyze why it doesn’t work. The lack of feedback is really frustrating. I would rather prefer insults to the silence.
I feel same.